The Bratislava Új Szó and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. The Anti-revolutionary Propaganda in the Hungarian-language Daily of the Communist Party of Slovakia

Árpád Popély: The Bratislava Új Szó and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. The Anti-revolutionary Propaganda in the Hungarian-language Daily of the Communist Party of Slovakia

The study analyses the involvement of the Bratislava Hungarian daily Új Szó during the Hungarian revolution of 1956. We attempt to review how the paper reacted on the events taking place in Hungary, and in what way was the propaganda of the power against the revolution presented on its pages. Új Szó—similarly to the Czech and Slovak papers—has condemned the „counter-revolution” in Hungary, but original articles written by the editorial board members were allowed to appear in the newspaper very rarely. Its items were taken over one-on-one from the press agency or from the Czech-language central party daily Rudé právo. But the involvement of Új Szó in 1956 had not exhausted in the propaganda targeted to the Hungarian minority of Slovakia, as the paper, through its special issues to be distributed in Hungary, had also been engaged in the propaganda towards